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What purpose did Jack have to write the anonymous letter to the narrator from a perspective that seemed to warn the narrator of the Brotherhood? Was it meant in a way to emphasize the Brotherhood's power/influence as a lasting threat if he were to step out of line? Wouldn't it be more effective for Jack's purpose to let the narrator continue thinking that the Brotherhood was completely on his side?

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"'Please, Dupre,' she said, 'please. You know my time's almost here... you know it is. If you do it now, where am I going to go?'" (546)

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"I’m invisible, not blind,” (576). What is this cellar of darkness if not a way to make the narrator less visible, even to himself? Hasn’t he gone from one type of blindness to another, now choosing blindness to the world and reality?

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Why does the narrator think of Sybil when looking at the mannequins?

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"I let fly the spear and it was as thought for a moment I had surrendered my life and begun to live again, watching it catch him as he turned his head to shout, ripping through both cheeks, and saw the surprise pause of the crowd as Ras wrestled with the spear that locked his jaws" (559-560).

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the narrator burning the reminders of his life as a "Brother" to get light and heat (feels really symbolic), plus him realizing that Brother Jack wrote the note warning him about the Brotherhood.

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How does the narrator get out of the manhole? Did the bit about the electrical company ever get explained in the end?

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"I had been as invisible to Mary as I had been to the Brotherhood" (571).

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Despite the various changes in mindset the narrator had throughout the novel (regarding his grandfather's advice), in the end the narrator's still controlled by those in power. In the epilogue he rejects his grandfather's advice in a different way from how he initially did; he wonders if he misinterpreted it instead.

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“Only in division is there true health,” (576). What does Ellison really mean by this? Is this a separatist thing?

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"'Because I'm your destiny.' 'My destiny, did you say?'...'I didn't say...Now, aren't you ashamed?' 'Ashamed? ASHAMED?'" (578)

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"Keep going man, it's hell upstairs. Somebody done opened the door to the roof and them flames is leaping." (548). Lots of fire/hell + descending (plunging) imagery, feels like he is trying to escape this hell but is descending further "into" it.

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The early-book narrator explicitly disliked the eviction of black people and claimed he wanted to prevent it. By the end of the book he is burning down a living space while the women/elderly/children inside tell the group that they don't want their house gone (despite its poor living conditions).

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Mr. Norton being scared by the narrator on the subway

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Mr. Norton being scared by the narrator on the subway

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"I'm your destiny."

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The narrator kicking Ras's 🤬 with Tarp's chains. There's got to be some symbolism there.

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The narrator in the hole burning all of the papers from his past.

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the narrator was betrayed by the brotherhood and is beginning to question all parts of the brotherhood. this seems to come into play in his mini-speech where he tries to get the others to see the manipulation.

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""Brother, ain't it wonderful," it called. "You said you would lead us, you really said it..."...But now I heard someone say, "Woman who you say that is?" And she proudly repeated my name. "Where he go? Get him, mahn, Ras wahnt him!""(549)

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On page 557 the narrator thinks "knew suddenly what I had to do, knew it even before it shaped itself completely in my mind". Does he mean that he needs to confront Ras and talk to him about the Brotherhood or is he talking about something different?

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The lady drinking beer while riding on a wagon (?) and throwing milk across the street

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"They want you guilty of your own murder, your own sacrifice!"(558) - it almost feels like before his near-death experience, the anger the narrator felt from Ras, he somehow adopts the Brotherhood's rhetoric and keeps trying to rhetoric his way out of the problem, which he then realizes is impossible. I think the significance of the word "sacrifice" and how it's been employed throughout the novel is interesting here.

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"He held me responsible for all the nights and days and all the suffering and for all that which I was incapable of controlling" (558)

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“There’s a possibility that even an invisible man has a socially responsible role to play,” (581).

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broken glasses in the street

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"'Why should I know you?' 'Because I'm your destiny'" (578)

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The narrator just falling, shwoop, down the hole in the street

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The narrator just falling, shwoop, down the hole in the street

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Ras the Destroyer riding through the streets of Harlem as an Abyssinian Chief with a spear, shield, and horse.

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The lady who I think was pregnant and who was begging them not to burn the building

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The lady who I think was pregnant and who was begging them not to burn the building

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"By pretending to agree I had indeed agreed" (553)

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"By pretending to agree I had indeed agreed" (553)

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I find it interesting that there are explicitly 7 hanging mannequins- as 7 is a very meaningful number in many cultures/religions

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he is mentioned a couple times, but his true significance is unclear. it seems like the narrator wants to use rinhart to hide, but also to see through his eyes. i am also wondering why he mentions him with bledsoe on 559

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When Rineheart's glasses broke right before Ras and the narrator have their "altercation", is that significant in the narrator's understanding of his identity and his role in the riot?

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Ras getting struck by his own spear. It also goes through his jaw which stops Ras from speaking. 

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Ras getting struck by his own spear. It also goes through his jaw which stops Ras from speaking. 

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Ras being an ABSOLUTE CHAD charging the police with a spear and shield

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Ras being an ABSOLUTE CHAD charging the police with a spear and shield

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The 7 hanging mannequins.

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Was the invisibleness the narrator mentioned throughout the story actually the "lost of blackness" he was experiencing? Ras was not ever described as invisible but sometime when other "white-appealing" black people were described, they were called invisible.

Did the narrator end as a traitor or did he finally break free of that after leaving the brotherhood and somewhat participating in the riot?

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The author reveals 2 major ways for the black people to advocate for the racial equality throughout the book: peaceful or violent protest. Although these two means were seem conflicted, they both heavily manipulate by the white people in different degrees. That is why either of them ended up into chaos and stagnation; it also revealed the plight for social movement proposing racial equality at that time, and even is relevant in modern society.

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Milk seems to be another important motif throughout the story - often as a meaningful representation of wealth and fertility. Perhaps a stretch, but combined with the nakedness and the references to Mary it almost feels like a "birth" of some sort, similar to how the ending was about the end being the beginning. Mary represents the safety and his ability to be who he wants to be, in comfort.